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House Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee

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Inquiry into the machinery of referendums

On 10 September 2009 the Attorney-General, The Hon. Robert McClelland MP, on behalf of the Special Minister and Cabinet Secretary, Senator the Hon. Joe Ludwig, asked the Committee to inquire into and report into the machinery of referendums.

The Committee invites interested persons and organisations to make submissions addressing the terms of reference by Friday 9 October 2009 . Please refer to our brochure called preparing a submission for more information.

In order to facilitate electronic publishing of submissions, the Committee would prefer them to be emailed to or e-mail: laca.reps@aph.gov.au or sent on disk or CD-ROM to the Committee Secretariat in Microsoft Word® or Portable Document Format (PDF).

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